Can't forget.....

Five books that kept you thinking about them long after being read:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lunch with the Generals by Derek Hansen
Cloven Hooves by Megan Lindholm
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Summer of Katya by Trevanian

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Kybalion by Three Initiates
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Welcome to the Ark by Stephanie S. Tolan
Heartlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley

There are so many stories, or parts of stories, that stay with me. Here are the first 5 that came to mind:

Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Rerun by Neil Crichton
Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
The Mark of an Angel by Nancy Huston
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

And, for non-fiction: An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot

Here are the first that come to mind:

The Women's Room by Marilyn French
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Stand by Stephen King
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
The Stand by Stephen King
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Don't Forget!: Easy Exercises for a Better Memory by Danielle C. Lapp
The Art of Memory by Frances Amelia Yates
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
America in the Movies Or "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind by Michael Wood
Remind Me Again Why I Need A Man by Claudia Carroll

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
No-No Boy By John Okada
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Skull session by Daniel Hecht
Generations: the history of America's future by Neil Howe and William Strauss
Knee Deep in Thunder by Sheila Moon
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

The Rings of Saturn, by WG Sebald
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Go-Between by LP Hartley

Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Candide, by Voltaire
The World According to Garp, by Joseph Heller

Pensees by Blaise Pascal
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Accessories After the Fact by Sylvia Meagher
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryu Suzuki
The Stranger Albert Camus

Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith
The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne
IT by Stephen King
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Summer Book by Tove Jannson